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Early life
[edit]William Anderson Hatfield was born on 1863. He was the son of Devil Anse and Levisa Hatfield.[1] He was named after his father and probably nicknamed Cap after his father's service in the confederate army.[2]
Hatfield-McCoy feud
[edit]Election Day shoot out
[edit]During the elections in November of 1896, Cap and his 14 year old stepson, Joe Glenn killed the mayor of Matewan Jim Rutherford.
Later that day Cap and Joe went to a store on their way home. At the store a crowd of men gathered outside, among the crowd was Jim Rutherford’s son John who was drunk.
When John and Cap saw each other, they open fired. John was killed and so was John’s brother in-law Henderson Chambers, who ran outside the store to see what was going on.[3]
Imprisonment
[edit]On April 1897, at Mingo Circuit Court in Williamson Cap and his stepson were found guilty for murder and sentenced to prison for 1 year.[3]
While Cap was in prison he began to study law.[4]
Later life
[edit](No seriously a few history books claim he becomes sheriff)
Death
[edit]Legacy
[edit]Cap had two children who became Lawyers. His daughter became the first female attorney in Logan county.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Hatfield 1974, p. 192.
- ^ Waller 2012, p. 36.
- ^ a b Rice 1982, p. 118-120.
- ^ Rice 1982, p. 120-121.
- ^ Waller 2012, p. 242.
Bibliography
[edit]Hatfield, George Elliott (1974). The Hatfields. Big Sandy Valley Historical Society.
Sellards, Harry Leon (1995). Hatfield Family History. H.L. Sellards, Jr.
Sellards, Harry Leon (1993). Hatfield and Phillips Families of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern West Virginia. H.L. Sellards, Jr.
Hatfield, Abraham (1935). The Hatfields of Westchester: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Hatfield of New Amsterdam and Mamaroneck, Whose Sons Settled in White Plains, Westchester County, New York. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Archived from the original on 2018-11-28.
Rice, Otis K. (December 31, 1982). The Hatfields and the McCoys. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813114590.
Waller, Altina L. (2012). Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469609713.
King, Dean (May 14, 2013). The Feud:The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316224789.
Alther, Lisa (February 5, 2013). Blood Feud:The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0762779185.
Hatfield, Coleman (June 27, 2011). The Feuding Hatfields & McCoys. Woodland Press, LLC. ISBN 9780979323621.
Snidow, Philip (1982). Giles County, Virginia, History--families. Vol. 2. Giles Co. Historical Society. Research Committee.
Green, James (2015). The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-2465-4.